AHA8: Research in India

• Introduction - Searching for Semantic Architecture in the cultural manifold of the Indian Subcontinent
• The Sacred Pillars of Hindu Tradition in Some Temples of Singapore - Extracts of a travel notebook
• Mango Pillars at Village Holi Festivals in Maharashtra - Indicators of pre-bramahnic times
• The Founder's Hut - Identification in a tribal village of the Santhals, Orissa
• Temples and Sacred Pillars in Southern India - Are the pillars the prototypes of temples?
• Goddess Lakshmi - A Bundle of Rice - Glimpses of an agrarian cult in Orissa
• The Temporary Hindu Temple and the Construction and Deconstruction of its Prototype at Kovalam Beach in Southern India  - An illustrated travel report of a surprising Hindu rite
• Anthropology of Awareness - An interview in the Indian Architect and Builder, Nov. 1994
• Architectural Anthropology - A short report on a lecture held at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi (Reprint from Vihangama, the IGNCA Newsletter)
• Global Theory Versus Local Theory - Village Anthropology in India: Some Critical Remarks

• The Urban Rural Dichotomy - Do the Humanities live with historistic speculations? A final outlook on Megalopolis- problems
  The paper basically questions the Eurocentric Western humanities and its capacities to adequately describe cultural conditions like those of the Indian subcontinent where rural traditional cultures are still dominant, but are ruled by urban values. The urban rural dichotomy outlined here shows clearly that, in regard to important parameters, the Western method widely projects the results of Eurocentric urban history on the population of other cultures like India, demanding tremendous efforts of adaption to these scientifically highly speculative urban values.

• Architectural Anthropology in Architectural Schools - Structure of a Compact Course
  A proposal for a compact course at architectural schools. Held at the Oslo-School of Architecture (1993) and at the Cultural Centre, Grosznjan, Istria, Croatia, Aug. 27.-Sept.5. 1993 and CEPT, Centre for Envrionmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India (1992)